In fact, Luuk de Jong had to remain guilty of answering when asked how it is possible that PSV once again pulls off a game in the closing minutes. After some hesitation, the maker of the 0-1 and 1-2 found an answer. "You can no longer speak of luck. Keeping believing in it is also a quality."
Faith
"You tell it, I don't know how we pull this off either," the celebrated man spoke earlier to FOX Sports. "It's the belief that we can still turn it around I think. We've talked about that so many times."
Of course, De Jong also saw that PSV got away well in Zwolle. "We were under pressure the whole second half. I hoped we could hold the 1-1, but the moment PEC got the feeling they could really win, spaces came. It's a fantastic night for me. It's nice to be off the mark, hopefully I can continue this line. But in the end I became a footballer to be important for the team."
'We are not giving up'
"No matter how tough we are, we are not giving up," head coach Mark van Bommel responded. "In the last five minutes I saw that PEC was a little bit through. The spaces with them got bigger, where they were big with us in the whole second half, but then I thought: hey, who knows, maybe that one little chance will come."
And that chance came. Still, Van Bommel was far from satisfied with his team's level of play. "The pitch was very big. I tried to make it smaller by coaching, but that is difficult to achieve. Often you still get that with one player, but then the other ten also have to come along."